Quotes About Contrast

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright unclouded day.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

And sometimes you realize the value of the rain by knowing how unreliable and vanishing the rainbow is.

She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.